I love Christmas traditions and I love how every family has different ones. Growing up, there are a few key traditions I cherished the most: opening our very awesome Advent calendar everyday, sleeping by the lighted Christmas tree at least one night in December, occasionally going to see the tree in NYC (moreso when I…
As I type this, I’m eating Cheerios for breakfast, it is 4 degrees out, and oh, I sent off my book proposal for my Te Araroa travel memoir to the first publisher I am targeting. Book proposal. Oh boy. If I poured my heart and soul into my book, then I poured someone else’s heart…
It used to be, no matter where we lived, we would have a revolving door of visitors. Nowadays, we live even more in the boondocks than ever, and only a few brave souls follow us where we go. I’m happy to say, we hosted our first Fenton Ranch visitor: Justin’s mom! This visit was extra…
The last time I worked on my travel memoir was May 30, 2016 and when I left off, I had a grand total of 33,620 words. Drumroll please … I have finished!!!! But wait! Stop the cheering! While it is certainly a big deal that I finished writing the story of our thru hike on…